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"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Electro-Culturer | ||
| A device used to artificially stimulate cell growth and development. |
In the story, a young man died in a tragic electrocution accident, but fortunately it was possible to maintain his brain artificially for ten thousand years! In the future, you'll need a larger brain to keep up.
| "Your capacity for brain development has been increased ten-fold...
But what was more startling and electrifying was the object they were bent over. It was the brain of a man. The two scientists seemed deeply engrossed in a pencil of orange light they were focusing on a part of the brain. “There you see us beginning to culture the cells of your brain so that they can develop to a greater degree. We found that only a small fraction of the total capacity was developed naturally. The tube you see me looking through while Doctor Volor trains the electro-culturer on the cells is an electric microscope with which I am watching the cells as they expand.” |
| Technovelgy from The Ancient Brain,
by A.G. Stangland. Published by Science Wonder Stories in 1929 Additional resources -
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Compare to the bubbleheads from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) by Philip K. Dick and the Methuen Treatment from The Exalted (1940) by L. Sprague de Camp.
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